Fat Joe is adding his 2 cents to the brewing conversation that today’s hip hop journalists are big trash, spurned over backlash from Kendrick Lamar giving his first “Not Like Us” interview to SZA!!!
The Bronx rap legend sat down for a new interview to discuss the fleeting practice of artists having journalists ask them fair questions, in exchange, to be able to alter the narrative on their own platforms. Fat Joe says the coverage of Tupac Shakur and Biggie‘s beef led to their demise!!!
“I also believe that the old guard of hip-hop journalists created a lot of conflict and might even have blood on their hands,” Joe explained.
Friendly reminder that the “east coast vs west coast beef” was started and fueled and perpetuated by Vibe Magazine.
2pac and Biggie’s blood is on that magazines hands.
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“When you talk about East Coast-West Coast, Biggie-Tupac, that thing was amplified, and they both ended up dead,” he declared. “And, when I look at the so-called journalists that were here from day one, since Vibe and The Source [magazines] and all that, still to this day when they interview people and they do podcasts themselves, it’s always a negative route.”
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We recently spoke to Benzino and he blamed the 1995 Source Awards for sparking the East Coast-West Coast wars, so there’s definitely some synergy in the OG’s recollections.
